If coaches and hockey players had unlimited access to ice, these are the kinds of drills they would be doing.

But you may have heard that ice is expensive. And when the sun is shining and the breeze is blowing in the summer, there’s no better place to be than outside at home, with a net, a stick, and nothing but time.

Oh, to be a kid again. The setup for this one is simple.

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• Set two sticks or barriers on the ground a bit wider than shoulder width apart
• Pull the puck and then flip it in between the sticks, and then out the other side
• Come back the other way

Evan Brownrigg has created two courses designed specifically for hockey players in the offseason. The first is the home of this drill: At-Home Puck Skills. Hockey teams are used to dealing with the constraints of time and space. We usually get an hour on the ice, and then we’re chased off by the Zamboni. With Brownrigg’s stickhandling drills, time becomes your friend, not your enemy. Players will enjoy working with the puck for hours, and by the end, if they have even half the control demonstrated by Brownrigg, they’ll be well on their way to being ready for the puck to drop next season.

But don’t worry about that right now. Just grab a stick, a puck, and start At-Home Puck Skills this weekend.